gautamcgoel

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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
I heard he was denied tenure.
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
There's a bio professor at my university, Michael Dickinson, who is one of the world's leading experts on flies, so much so that his email handle is "flyman". His group is trying to understand the relationship between th
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
Interesting last sentence in the context of shipping a programming language: "It's like a marriage, it doesn't stop with the wedding."
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
I'm studying machine learning as a PhD student at Caltech. I have heard of graduating ML PhD students from my department making $400-500k/year as a starting salary. Heck, they could probably retire by 35. I doubt any English major
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
Update: https://twitter.com/RaptorCompSys/status/1176432946670186498
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Abacus tournaments in Japan(nytimes.com)
52 points by gautamcgoel 7y ago|48 comments
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
Somewhat unrelated: I really enjoyed this recent NYT article about how schoolkids in Japan master arithmetic by learning how to use an abacus: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/world/asia/japan-abac
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
I appreciate Drew sharing this, I was interested in picking a Raptor board up sometime...
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
I wonder how easy and cheap it would be to build a comparable analog computer using modern ICs. I also wonder if analog computers could make a comeback. Training a neural net seems very much like an analog computation to me...
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
Is the Mill CPU still happening? Haven't heard about it in a while...
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
*fell
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
loool, feel into my own trap!
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
Jesus Christ, is Ben Bova, not Ben Boba...
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
Really cool article. I appreciated the "engineering on the battlefield" vibe. I'm curious why they first went with Lisp.
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by gautamcgoel 7y ago
Really bravely written post.